Carolina Foxtail

Alopecurus carolinianus Walt. Fl. Carol. 74. 1788
Alopecurus ramosus Poir. in Lam. Encycl. 8: 776. 1808. (Type from Carolina.)
Alopecurus gracilis Willd.; Trin. Mem. Acad. St.-Petersb. VI. 6 1 : 38. 1840. (Type from Carolina.)
Alopecurus Macounii Vasey, Bull. Torrey Club 15: 12. 1888. (Type from Oak Bay, Vancouver
Island, Macoun.) Alopecurus geniculatus var. caespitosus Scribn. in Macoun, Cat. Can. PI. 2 5 : 389. 1890. (Type
from Yale, British Columbia, Macoun.) Alopecurus geniculatus var. ramosus St. John, Rhodora 19: 167. 1917. (Based on .4 . ramosus Poir.)
Annual; culms tufted, much branched at base, erect or more or less spreading, glabrous, 10-50 cm. tall; sheaths glabrous, the upper sometimes a little inflated; ligule mostly 3-4 mm. long; blades flat, scabrous, mostly 2-4 mm. wide; panicles usually more slender than those of A. geniculatus; glumes 2-2.5 mm. long, pale, not purple-tipped; awn of lemma about as in A. geniculatus; anthers 0.5 mm. long.
Type locality: South Carolina.
Distribution: Moist open ground, old fields, and wet places. New Jersey to British Columbia, and southward to Florida, Texas, Arizona, and California.